Development Awareness Fund Mini Grants 2006/07

Organisation	Summary of project
African Women's Welfare Group Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	“African Women: Raising our Voices (for Security and Development)”: this project will provide a forum for refugee women in London and Milton Keynes to promote awareness of global development issues, and build sustainable networks with other women’s movements to disseminate this understanding. Using seminars, workshops, cultural events and work of trained volunteers over 3 years.
Bridges Development Education Centre Amount awarded: £9,647 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	“The 16 Challenge: Can Shropshire primary schools turn debate into action?”: working with KS2 children from local and contrasting primary schools to explore and develop their knowledge of development issues. Developing support of teachers and volunteers, and using summits held at civic location to draw schools together over this 3 year project.
Centre for Global Education, York Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	“Every Year Better? An international project to plot progress towards and obstacles to achieving the UN MDGs”: embedding an in-depth study of the MDGs for KS3 school students in York and N.Yorkshire. Ensuring Southern voices will be heard, and using peer learning and support to teachers to help young people to connect their own environment and lifestyle with the wider world. Over 3 years.
Development Education in Dorset Amount awarded: £251,830 Period of funding: 3 years	“Skills for Life - Shared Learning and Practice to embed Active Global Citizenship in Higher Education”: in partnership with Bournemouth University, the project will increase the visibility, profile and accessibility of development education with staff and students through a virtual “hub” of learning. Impacting 6 schools of the University and 80 teaching staff over 3 years.
Girlguiding Sussex East Amount awarded: £2,000 Period of funding: 1 year	“Global Citizenship Project for Girlguiding Sussex East”: enabling girls and young women in Sussex East to think global and act local through research and preparation for active citizenship activities. These will be shared through the creation of a global development village within an International Camp and use of the resources after the event. 1 year project.
Lancashire Global Education Centre Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	“Beyond Citizenship – introducing a global dimension to curriculum focus events in schools”: developing innovative ways of supporting primary schools in Lancashire to embed a global dimension into the curriculum, and to engage and provide in-depth support to 8 schools not previously reached. 3 year project.
Liverpool World Centre Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 2 years (1st year funding)	“Kensington Window on the World”: working to embed the global dimension within diversity education in schools in the Kensington area of Liverpool. Increasing the capacity of southern providers and BME groups to use their global experience as a resource, providing workshops and action planning and disseminating the learning over 2 years.
Manchester Development Education Project Amount awarded: £8,424 Period of funding: 2 years (1st year funding)	“Fairer Enterprise: A Social Enterprise (SE) Network for Greater Manchester”: forming a network of social enterprises to build their capacity in delivering enterprise learning and global citizenship. Running training events and promoting member support for schools to then implement 2 pupil-run projects working with SEs. 2 year project will culminate in a SE Trade Fair for schools.
Marlborough Brandt Group Amount awarded: £8,000 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	“ACTIVE8 – Beyond the White Band”: working with Citizenship and subject co-ordinators in 24 primary and special schools in Wiltshire to increase knowledge of UN MDGs and build on the success of MPH by promoting active global citizenship. Teachers and pupils will be motivated to take positive action during this 3 year project.
Norfolk Education and Action for Development Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	“Students 4 Global Action”: working to enthuse and empower large numbers of year 8 and 9 pupils in Norfolk and Secondary to make their schools more globally aware and active and ultimately to embed the global dimension into these secondary schools. Using students’ conferences, action planning and teacher support to implement change over 3 years.
Stevenage-Kadoma Link Assocation Amount awarded: £9,100 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	“Encouraging Partnership between schools in Stevenage and Kadoma in Zimbabwe”: working within the framework of the national curriculum to develop understanding of development issues reaching new primary schools and two secondary schools in Stevenage and building on existing links with Kadoma. 3 year project.
White Rabbit Theatre Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 1 year	“Climate Change: A Shared Future”: using performance and drama workshop focusing on climate change to explore and engage schools in Devon, Plymouth and Torbay in the need to positively respond to such an issue of global interdependence. Developing pupils understanding and teachers’ capacity over 1 year.
Y Care International Amount awarded: £9,642 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	“Mainstreaming global youth work into the YMCA’s programmes for young residents”: piloting with Kingston and Wimbledon YMCA the integration of development issues into existing youth work structures and activities. Building the capacity of staff through training and making global youth work elements, courses and project work available to young residents over 3 years.
Cheshire DEC Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (2nd year funding)	“Get Global at University College Chester: Supporting the global dimension in ITE”: working with ITE students, tutors and school based mentors in University College Chester over 3 years to embed the global dimension across its B.Ed, PGCE Primary and Secondary course curricula.
Chichester Inter-Diocesan West Africa Link/Chicester Diocesan Board of Education Amount awarded: £9,500 Period of funding: 2 years (2nd year funding)	“Global citizenship teacher training programme for Church Schools in the Diocese of Chichester”: programme of global citizenship and development awareness training for teachers in Sussex Church of England schools, extending to community schools. To take place over two years building on existing links with Sierra Leone.
Envolve Partnerships for Sustainability Amount awarded: £9,981 Period of funding: 2 years (2nd year funding)	“Our Farms, Our Futures”: working with 8 primary and 2 secondary schools in Bath and North East Somerset to develop awareness of global connections in farming and food issues 2years. The project will add global dimensions (including links to farming communities in Uganda, Rwanda and Lesotho) to an existing Farm-Link scheme.
Leeds University Centre for African Studies Amount awarded: £9,570 Period of funding: 2 years (2nd year funding)	“The Leeds University Centre for African Studies (LUCAS) Schools Project on Global Citizenship”: focus on a number of National Curriculum areas from the Southern perspective of African PhD students to raising awareness of the global dimension. Promoting positive attitudes and encouraging positive action in 4 secondary and their feeder primary schools in Leeds over 2 years.
Liverpool World Centre Amount awarded: £9,958.40 Period of funding: 3 years (2nd year funding)	“Liverpool Schools in One World”: working with Liverpool Schools’ Parliaments and 8 school councils per term over 3 years to raise awareness of global interdependence, with a focus on fair trade action-planning and peer learning by creating a network of young people as “Fairtrade Ambassadors”.
Manchester Environmental Education Network Amount awarded: £5,894 Period of funding: 2 years (2nd year funding)	“Sustainable Schools in East Manchester”: to intensively support two inner-city primary schools in Manchester over two years to develop links and tie global dimension to the geography, literacy and ICT curricula using chosen themes.
Pan African Development and Advocacy Programme Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (2nd year funding)	“Thinking globally and acting locally for Africa’s development”: promoting awareness and understanding of the linkages between development in Africa and globally, working with Africans in the Diaspora and others in North London and beyond over 3 years. The project will popularise a broader understanding of the challenges of development and will raise awareness of key strategic issues (NEPAD, the AU).
Trade Injustice and Debt Action Leeds (TIDAL) Amount awarded: £9,500 Period of funding: 3 years (2nd year funding)	“TIDALSurge, a project of Trade Injustice and Debt Action, Leeds”: to raise awareness of issues around global poverty with a diverse and inclusive range of Leeds community groups. Using a rolling programme of events over 3 years.
Akademi Amount awarded: £9,000 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Parallel Spaces”: using South Asian dance and art forms to bring development issues to life in primary and secondary schools in London, supported by INSET and support for artists.
Cumbria DEC Amount awarded: £6,525 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Keeping diversity on track”: to explore interdependence and cultural diversity in 6 schools and communities along Carlisle and Settle railway, and share its potential to sustain school and community development.
DEC South Yorkshire Amount awarded: £9,992 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Foundations for Global Learning”: developing the global dimension working with the Cultural Mentoring Team in Foundation stage settings in Sheffield and South Yorkshire, and feeding into regional EES strategy - Y and HGSA.
Development Education in Dorset Amount awarded: £9,994 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Thinking Outside the Box”: working with theatre and arts to provide pupils and teachers in Bournemouth, Poole and Dorset with training, resources and advice, to creatively embed the global dimension in schools.
Generator X Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“The Local Energy in Education Programme for Tower Hamlets”: working in secondary schools in Tower Hamlets to build 11-12 year olds’ understanding of 2 way connections between environmental sustainability and international development through multi-media workshops linked into the science curriculum.
Global Education Derby Amount awarded: £7,370 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Globalising Environmental Education in Derby and Derbyshire”: working with Eco-Schools network to develop the capacity of schools to use environmental issues and activities to introduce and explain development topics. Also to increase the capacity of environmental education agencies in schools.
Humanities Education Centre Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Lines in the sand”: working in partnership with Eastside Arts to show how literacy and the arts can demonstrate a greater understanding of development and combating poverty through the plight of the Saharawi people. Targeting secondary students in Tower Hamlets, and neighbouring boroughs.
Kent Youth Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Kent and the Global Picture”: using Peer Education principles to equip young people aged 15 to 21 with knowledge about a broad range of international issues, chosen (with support) by the young people.
Leicester Masaya Link Group Amount awarded: £8,971 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Food for Thought – Exploring tropical ecosystems to raise global awareness”: educational programme for students and teachers in Leicestershire, using partnership with University of Leicester Botanic Garden to explore issues such as resources, food production, globalisation and global inequality.
Teesside One World Centre Amount awarded: £9,994 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	“Go Global!”: working with young people and providers / staff in 9 after school clubs in Redcar and Cleveland over 3 years to raise awareness of global consequences of local actions, and encourage young people to act as responsible citizens. Building on involvement of BME community.
Total amount awarded	£283,062.40

Northern Ireland
Organisation	Summary of project
Children in Crossfire Amount awarded: £6,117.20 Period of funding: 1 year	8 Good Reasons: a formal sector project designed to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals through research, resource provision and continuing professional development.
Development Media Workshop Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Global Experiences of Childhood: the delivery of film-based training with teachers focusing on the lives of poverty-affected children in Nepal, Kenya and migrant workers in Northern Ireland.
Old Museum Arts Centre Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 1 year	We’re in it together: to engage young people aged 14-18 yrs in development issues through arts-based activities including live performance.
Children's Express Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 2 years (2nd year funding)	Global Eye: a peer education programme for young people focusing on the development of media skills.
Total amount awarded	£36,117.20

Scotland
Organisation	Summary of project
VETAID Amount awarded: £7,359 Period of funding: 1 year	Farming futures: North and South: To raise awareness amongst primary school pupils in the Highland areas of parallels between the livestock-dependant lifestyles of Scottish crofters and the East African Maasai, actively promoting dynamic global citizenship for sustainable development.
ALTERnativity Amount awarded: £3,700 Period of funding: 1 year	A Global Christmas: Working Together to make a difference: uses the season as a way into global and development awareness through providing training for church and community leaders across Scotland.
ScotDEC Amount awarded: £5,184 Period of funding: 1 year	Global Clusters: To embed the global dimension in school development plans.
Highland One World Group Amount awarded: £4,940 Period of funding: 2 years (1st year funding)	Know your own patch and theirs: this project will be the local focus of the EES initiative and increase knowledge of the Millennium Development Goals. To encourage individuals to take action for change by supporting schools to include a global dimension in their approach to sustainable development education and enterprise.
Interact Worldwide Amount awarded: £7,100 Period of funding: 2 years (2nd year funding)	Action and Ideas: Training Series for Lifelong Learning Educations: for educations and community workers based on issues explored in a cross-section of Development Education resources.
One World Centre Dundee Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (2nd year funding)	Discovering and Shaping our World: To ensure a programme of active global citizenship within voluntary youth organisations in Dundee and the surrounding area.
Total amount awarded	£38,283

Wales
Organisation	Summary of project
Centre for Alternative Technology Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	Designing for People: Global Education in Design and Technology KS 3 and 4 This project aims to embed development education into Design and Technology teaching in Wales at Key Stage 3 and 4. The key objectives are to equip a significant number of teachers with the knowledge and skills to incorporate a global perspective into their D&T teaching and to feel able to develop their knowledge to support their teaching.
Gwerin y Coed (Woodcraft Folk in Wales) Amount awarded: £10,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Empowering a Generation with Global Changes The main aim of this project is to support young people who want to promote global citizenship with other young people in an informal setting. The project will run training workshops for young people to develop their skills as facilitators, so that they, in turn, can run workshops on global topics with their chosen target group. The workshops will raise awareness of the links between global poverty, aids and conflict and enable young people to respond effectively.
PEDEC Amount awarded: £7,776 Period of funding: 1 year	Broadcasting Support for International Development in Wales The project will work with future journalist and broadcasters at Aberystwyth University to raise awareness of the Millennium Development Goals and facilitate high quality communications (such as radio programmes, articles, pod casts etc.) on development issues, which will be delivered through local and regional media to raise public awareness of international development issues.
Small World Theatre Amount awarded: £5,000 Period of funding: 1 year	Wales and the World - Sex and Poverty The project will use participatory drama and other participatory development methods to consult teachers, health professionals, young people, education advisors, teacher trainees and other stakeholders on their perceptions, knowledge and current understanding of issues surrounding sexual health locally and in the context of the impact of STDs such as HIV and AIDs on global poverty.
World Education Centre Amount awarded: £8,000 Period of funding: 3 years (1st year funding)	Teachers as Peer Educators The project will build capacity for Education for Sustainable Development and Global Citizenship amongst teachers in primary and secondary schools in North West Wales by using teachers as continuing professional development peer educators. In each project year teachers from four schools requiring help to develop ESDGC will be paired with four experienced teachers with appropriate expertise. Half the teachers will de drawn from primary and half from secondary schools.
Somali Integration Society Amount awarded: £9,793 Period of funding: 2 years (2nd year funding)	Somalis in Wales: A Rich Contribution Year 2 The project aims to promote a positive and informed image of Somali culture to those living in Wales and to promote cultural diversity and counter racism in Wales. The project will work with schools and other audiences to recognise the economic links between Somali-speaking countries and Wales and the ongoing economic contributions of the Diaspora community to development in Somaliland and elsewhere.
Swansea City Council Sustainable Development Unit Amount awarded: £8,410 Period of funding: 3 years (3rd year funding)	In Focus – Investigating Human Rights through Media Studies Year 3 This is the third year of a project which aims to develop a teaching framework within the Media Studies curriculum that will enable young people in Swansea to develop a critical and personalized understanding of global interdependence and humane rights. The project will work with seven secondary schools within the City and County of Swansea.
Total amount awarded	£58,979

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